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LUTHER 'I. HAZEN, OF COVENTRY, NEW-YORK.

HUB FOR CARRIAGE-WHEELS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 24,120, dated May 24, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUTHER T. HAZEN, of the town of Coventry, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Making I-Iubs for Carriage Wheels and other Vehicles; and the following is a clear description of the same, refer ence being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in incasing wood hubs entirely with metal, which forms the pipe box and helps to hold firmly the spokes.

In order to enable others skilled in the arts to make and use my improved hubs I will describe it referring to the drawing.

Figure 1, represents a sect-ion through the center of the hubthe brown color, the iron case and pipe box, the orange color the wood hub. Fig. 2 shows the plan with the front and case ofi.

(A) is a plain wood hub, turned in shape and size to fit the cavity in the castings, and is mortised to receive the spokes in the usual manner.

(B) is the pipe box with the case (6) cast on the largest end which forms the shape and finish back of the spokes, and has a concave into which the wood hub is fitted.

(O) is a movable case, cast in form and shape like the one on the pipe box, and slides onto it, and forms the finish of the hub in front of the spokes, together with the band (D) which makes the screw nut to hold the front case (0) to its place on the wood hub It will readily be seen, that among the many advantages to be derived in my manner of making and incasing wood hubs, one of the greatest is, that they can be made much lighter, and in better proportions than ordinary cast iron hubs, and much stronger, and more durable than wood hubs, which require to be made of the best quality of timher or they are liable to become split or cracked and thereby the spokes become loosened. In my improved hub they require no other banding, and the case protects the hub from all exposure, and furthermore there is no liability of the pipe box becoming loosened nor the wheel getting out of true.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is, inclosing wood hubs for carriage wheels or other vehicles with metal cases, which form the pipe box, and bands, in the manner described, and for the purposes set forth.

Y LUTHER T. HAZEN. VVit-nesses:

EDM. F. BROWN, J. B. lVooDRUFF. 

